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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Havana government reduces import duties on foreign flour effective March 21, 1816, pending royal approval: $5 per barrel in foreign vessels (down from $8), $2 in Spanish vessels from foreign ports, and free for Spanish flour from Spanish ports in national vessels. Applies to all quality, repeals prior damaged flour customs.
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From the government paper of Havanna March 28. 1816. :
By a resolve of his excellency the governor and captain general, and the superintendent and subdelegate of the royal revenue, pro tem. it is ordered, subject to the approbation of his majesty, that the duties on the flour that shall be imported into this island be diminished in the manner following, being an alteration of the provisional resolve of the 9th of May, 1809.
Foreign flour imported in foreign vessels shall pay five dollars per barrel, instead of the eight, that have been paid as royal duties, and besides the municipal duties.
Foreign flour imported by Spanish vessels from a foreign port that paid five dollars, shall pay two per barrel, and also the municipal duties.
Spanish flour imported from a Spanish port in national vessels shall be free from royal duties.
The payment of the duties shall be made indiscriminately, whether the flour be of good quality or damaged: repealing by the present, the customes established as to the flour-damaged; and as to what is provided in the said provisional resolve, respecting the entrepot of flour, its duration and exaction of duties it remains as heretofore. Which is communicated to the merchants in pursuance of the decree of the said superintendent of the twentieth of this month,
SEDANO.
Havanna, March 21st, 1816.
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Havanna
Event Date
March 21st, 1816
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duties reduced: foreign flour in foreign vessels from $8 to $5 per barrel; in spanish vessels from foreign ports to $2 per barrel; spanish flour from spanish ports free. applies indiscriminately to quality; prior customs on damaged flour repealed; entrepot provisions unchanged.
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Resolve by governor, captain general, and royal revenue officials orders diminution of flour import duties, altering 1809 provisional resolve, subject to king's approval. Details specify rates for different import scenarios, mandates indiscriminate payment regardless of flour quality, repeals damaged flour customs, and maintains entrepot rules. Communicated to merchants per superintendent's decree of March 20.